...ked whether Frederika Bremer's novels, once received here with such enthusiasm, were still read in Sweden, he said No; and to the question as to what had taken their place he replied, Bret Harte and Mark Twain . It is undoubtedly these two men rather than any others among the Western humorists, in their opinion of whom Europe and America, for a time at least, most nearly united. Apart from his c...